On 03/12/2013 05:09 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, David Knezevic wrote:
>
>> Quick question though, because I'm not sure I understand how this 
>> works when we're numbering in "var major" order. Suppose we have 
>> variables "u", "v" and "p", then the dof indices corresponding to any 
>> particular node would typically be very far apart when we use 
>> var-major ordering. And I also thought that local dof indices are 
>> always contiguous (i.e. they're between first_local_index and 
>> last_local_index), so it's not clear to me how these "very far apart" 
>> dof indices would end up on a single processor, i.e. the same 
>> processor as the node?
>
> The trick is that the phrase "var major" is a lie.  "var major"
> doesn't mean "first order by variables, then order by nodes", it means
> "first order by processor id, then by variables, then by nodes".

OK, makes sense, thanks!

David


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